ABSTRACT
This chapter is devoted to the analysis and discussion of the semantic structure of Arabic idioms. It is divided into four major sections. The first section briefly discusses the notion of motivation, which features in many works on idioms. The second presents the results of the analysis with regard to the figurative patterns that underlie the data examples. The third introduces the notion of isomorphism and looks at how Arabic idioms may be classified with regard to it. Finally, the fourth section discusses the results of the analysis.
